Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather be an administrator than a teacher ("I like to make the wheels go 'round"). In his 46 years he has turned a lot of wheels, held many titles. He has been a dean at the State University of Iowa, wartime head (lieutenant commander) of the Bureau of Naval Personnel's educational services section, and part-time University of Chicago professor. Last week, subject to the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate, Harry Truman gave him his biggest title yet: U.S. Commissioner of Education...
...with Russia-a 122½-mile strip on the Arctic tip of the Scandinavian peninsula. It asserted that the proposed Atlantic pact was an attempt by the U.S. and Britain to dominate the world. It asked Norway whether she was going to furnish the West with "air force or naval bases...
Died. Admiral David Foote Sellers, 74, onetime Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (1933-34) and Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1934-38); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bethesda...
Young Arthur never forgot what Dr. Bell simply called the "trained eye." Meanwhile, he became a demon boxer, wrestler, rugby player. Before he got his medical degree he shipped on an Arctic whaler as naval surgeon, began the voyage by hanging a mouse on the steward's eye, ended it covered with snow and blood after charging a herd of seals with a poleax. "I just feel as if I could go anywhere, and do anything," he told his admiring mother...
Died. Admiral Takeshi Takarabe, 81, onetime Japanese Navy Minister (militarists forced him to resign after he helped draft the 1930 London Naval Treaty limiting Japanese sea power); of cancer; in Tokyo...